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Authorities in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province on Sunday launched the first phase of exhuming one of the largest mass graves of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) victims - the Khasfa pit. The Khasfa ...
A bomb planted inside an old car exploded in Damascus on Saturday. There are no immediate reports of casualties.
Iraq’s electoral commission announced on Sunday that nearly 300 parliament candidates have been disqualified from the upcoming November legislative elections, state media reported, citing ties ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraqi and Kurdish security forces have arrested nearly a dozen “terrorists” in a series of coordinated operations targeting remnants of the Islamic State (ISIS ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s oil ministry is “very close” to reaching a final agreement with the Kurdistan Region to resume oil exports, a senior ministry official told Rudaw on ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least four people, including two children, were killed and five others injured in an explosion on the outskirts of Syria’s northwestern Idlib city on Thursday ...
Iraqi intelligence forces on Sunday captured a “terrorist” network comprising nearly two dozen suspected Islamic State (ISIS) affiliates who were allegedly plotting attacks against Shiite ...
Iran on Friday returned more than 600 prisoners to Evin Prison, weeks after an Israeli airstrike killed dozens and damaged the notorious facility.
The body of 33-year-old Bashdar Hassan, a Kurdistan Region native who was shot and killed last month in northern France’s Dunkirk refugee camp, was returned home Thursday.
Iraq’s oil marketing agency on Friday denied reports of smuggling or blending Iraqi oil with that of neighboring countries, after United States sanctions targeted an Iraqi-linked network accused ...
Iraq is experiencing its worst drought since 1933, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative said on Saturday. Farmland available for cultivation has been halved ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Syrian transitional government on Saturday canceled planned negotiations with the Kurdish-led administration of northeast Syria (Rojava) in Paris after Rojava hosted ...